Birthdays
James Edmund Bailey
Turns 38 on this date
Charles C. Davis
Turns 30 on this date
Thomas Bull Jacobs
Turns 48 on this date
George Godfrey Leland
Turns 36 on this date
Events
| Personal | African-American actress and activist Henrietta Vinton Davis born in Baltimore, Maryland | 08/15/1860 |
| US/the World | Ship full of donated military equipment arrives at Garibaldi's Sicilian base from England | 08/15/1860 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Times, “Wall-Street and the Country,” August 15, 1860 | 08/15/1860 |